Accountant (m/w/d)

Job Description

Working as part of the Avangrid Power team, Control Accounting has full oversight of the accounting and performance tracking for all Gross Margin activities. The Lead Senior role plays an important part in supporting efforts in a very demanding environment with a particular focus on reporting of both revenue and cost of sales

Key Responsibilities

• Perform frequent analysis of gross margin, providing valued variance analysis to senior financial management and the business management.
• Assist in group cost-reviews and using initiative in identifying concerning trends or risks, produce substantiating reports and work with businesses in validating trends and mitigating risk.
• Enable the maintenance of appropriate accounting, working with Control and the businesses where required to correct erroneous treatments.
• Work with the Renewables group in managing gross margin activity
• Organize progress meetings with Operations senior management, delivering current and projected performance analysis.
• Maintain regular communications with project managers on project status, budget adherence and availability control requirements.
• Assist in the review of intercompany transacting and assurance of appropriate treatment of costs in conformance with intercompany contracts.
• Support budget and business plan processes and other ad hoc requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree.
• 5+ years experience in industry or public accounting relevant to job requirements
• Sound understanding of US GAAP / IFRS, including application.
• Experience with SAP (or similar integrated financial systems).
• Advanced Excel skills
• Ability to work and communicate effectively with all levels of the corporate hierarchy on written and oral interfaces.
• Solid communication skills and ability to interact with Senior Management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Skill to work independently with management oversight.

Preferred Qualifications

Preference may be given to candidates with the following:

• CPA license and/or graduate business degree.
• Energy experience.

Competencies

• Growth & Continuous Improvement
• Initiative & Change
• Focused on Results
• Customer Centric (internal and/or external)
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Leadership (people managers/leaders)

Benefits

• Award winning student loan debt repayment program
• 12% 401(k) Match
• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Comprehensive benefits - including medical, dental, vision and variety of well-being programs
• Tuition Assistance
• Opportunities for professional development, career advancement, and internal mobility
• Supportive and inclusive work environment
• Generous PTO policy

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country.

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Avangrid employees may be assigned a system emergency role and in the event of a system emergency, may be required to work outside of their regular schedule/job duties. This is applicable to employees that will work in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate functions. This does not include those that will work for Avangrid Power.

Avangrid employees may also be assigned a NERC Reliability Standards compliance role supporting Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) and/or Operations and Planning (O&P) responsibilities. This is applicable to employees that will work in electric transmission, operations, and cyber security business areas in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, and New York within Avangrid Network and Corporate business areas. NERC Reliability Standards compliance roles and responsibilities may include additional access protections, training, audit engagement, and required evidence retention, and will be communicated by the employee's management.